 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 sider
...falsehood. . . . The truth is that Polydore Vergil's attainments went far beyond the common taming of his age. The earlier part of his history interfered...prejudices of the English. He discarded Brute as an unreal person&ge ; and considered Geoffrey of Monmouth's history an heterofpneous mixture of fact and fable,... | |
 | William Long - 1876 - 302 sider
...was Archdeacon of Wells in 1508, and was employed by Henry VII. to write a history of England. " His attainments went far beyond the common learning of...little which could be safely relied upon as history "(Sir H.Ellis). Hence the abuse of Vergil by Leland, Sir H. Savile, Paulus Jovius, Humphrey Lluyd,... | |
 | Valentine Long - 1876 - 294 sider
...was Archdeacon of Wells in 1508, and was employed by Henry VII. to write a history of England. " His attainments went far beyond the common learning of...little which could be safely relied upon as history " (Sir H.Ellis). Hence the abuse of Vergil by Leland, Sir H. Savile, Paulus Jovius, Humphrey Lluyd,... | |
 | 1876 - 522 sider
...Archdeacon of Wells in 1508, and was employed by Henry VII. to write a history of England. " Ili.s attainments went far beyond the common learning of...little which could be safely relied upon as history " (Sir H.Ellis). Hence the abuse of Vergil by Leland, Sir H. Savile, Faulus Jovius, Humphrey Lluyd,... | |
 | William Long - 1876 - 288 sider
...was Archdeacon of Wells in 1508, and was employed by Henry VII. to write a history of England. " His attainments went far beyond the common learning of...as an unreal personage ; and considered Geoffrey of Monmonth's history an heterogeneous mixture of fact and fable, furnishing comparatively little which... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1875 - 922 sider
...The earlier part of his history interfered with the prejudices of the English. He discarded finite as an unreal personage ; and considered Geoffrey of...little which could be safely relied upon as history" (Sir H.Ellis). Hence the abuse of Vergil by Leland, Sir H. Savile, Paulus Jovius, Humphrey Lluyd, Caius,... | |
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Historin peritiseimus," was born at Urbino in Italy, in the latter half of the fifteenth century, and died 1555. He was Archdeacon of Wells in 1508, and was employed by Henry VII. to write a history of England. " His attainments went far beyond the common... 